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Indigenous health

Training and Workforce

Making a difference: the early impact of an Aboriginal health undergraduate medical curriculum

David Paul, Sandra Carr and Helen Milroy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 522-525 Free

Medicine and the community

B-cell antigen D8/17 is a marker of rheumatic fever susceptibility in Aboriginal Australians and can be tested in remote settings

Zinta Harrington, Kumar Visvanathan, Narelle A Skinner, Nigel Curtis, Bart J Currie and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 507-510 Free

Health inequalities

Causes of inequality in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1981–2000: a decomposition analysis

Yuejen Zhao and Karen Dempsey

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 490-494 Free

Viewpoint

Aboriginal incarceration: health and social impacts

Anthea Susan Krieg

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 534-536 Free

Training and Workforce

Perspectives on Aboriginal community controlled health services

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 526 Free

Medicine and the community

Practical challenges of conducting research into rheumatic fever in remote Aboriginal communities

Malcolm I McDonald, Norma Benger, Alex Brown, Bart J Currie and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 511-513 Free

Health inequalities

The outcome of critically ill Indigenous patients

Kwok Ming Ho, Judith Finn, Geoffrey J Dobb and Steven A R Webb

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 496-499 Free

Training and Workforce

The general practitioner

Kathryn S Panaretto and Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 527-528 Free

Medicine and the community

Challenging perceptions of non-compliance with rheumatic fever prophylaxis in a remote Aboriginal community

Zinta Harrington, David P Thomas, Bart J Currie and Joy Bulkanhawuy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 514-517 Free

Research enterprise

Getting the most from Indigenous health research

David P Thomas and Ian P Anderson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 500-501 Free

Editorials

Indigenous health: burden or opportunity?

Louis G Peachey, Kristin E McBain and Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 483-484 Free

Training and Workforce

The Aboriginal health worker

Melvina Mitchell and Lynette M Hussey

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 529-530 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Mental health, grief and family ties The Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition 2006

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 518 Free

For debate

Mutual obligation and Indigenous health: thinking through incentives and obligations

Emma Kowal

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): 292-293 Free

Research

Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales

Kathleen F Clapham, Mark R Stevenson and Sing Kai Lo

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 217-220 Free

Letters

Changing patterns of tuberculosis in Far North Queensland

Graham Simpson, Paul Clark and Trevor Knight

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 252 Free

Letters

Stroke among Indigenous Australians at Royal Darwin Hospital, 2001–02 

Elizabeth May Pepper, Dominique A Cadilhac, Dora C Pearce, James Burrow and Tarun S Weeramanthri

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 195 Free

Research

Zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Indigenous Australian children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infection: a randomised controlled trial

Anne B Chang, Paul J Torzillo, Peter M Stewart, Naomi C Boyce, Andrew V White, Gavin R Wheaton, David M Purdie, John Wakerman and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 107-112 Free

Letters

Action is required to reduce kava supply in Arnhem Land . . . again!

Alan R Clough, Bart J Currie, Maymuna W Yunupingu and Katherine M Conigrave

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 91-92 Free

Correction

Long-term trends in cancer mortality for Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory

John R Condon, Joan Cunningham, Tony Barnes and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 39 Free

Book review

Aboriginal health: time to listen

Yin C Paradies

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Telling you our story: how apology and action relate to health and social problems in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Wendy A Hermeston

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (9): 479-481 Free

World Of Difference

The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: findings to date on adolescents

Eve M Blair, Stephen R Zubrick and Adele H Cox

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 433-435 Free

Health care

Use of SMS text messaging to improve outpatient attendance

Sean R Downer, John G Meara and Annette C Da Costa

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (7): 366-368 Free

Indigenous health

Clinical outcomes associated with changes in a chronic disease treatment program in an Australian Aboriginal community

Wendy E Hoy, Srinivas N Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan and Jennifer L Nicol

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (6): 305-309 Free